Wu Mi (August 1894-), founder and editor of the Hsüeh-heng [critical review], an important literary journal which opposed the literary revolution in China in the 1920's. A disciple of Irving Babbitt, he taught Western literature at Tsinghua University in 1924-44. The Chingyang district of Shensi was the birthplace of Wu Mi. His father, Wu Chungch'i, […]

Mei Kuang-ti (22 January 1890-27 December 1945), scholar and editor of the conservative literary journal Hsueh-heng [the critical review]. Though a pioneer in the introduction of Western literature to China, he was an uncompromising opponent of the Chinese literary movements of the 1920's. He taught Chinese at Harvard University from 1924 to 1936. Hsuancheng, Anhwei, […]

Liang Shih-ch'iu (1902-), literary critic, teacher, and translator of Western literature who was a leading figure in the Crescent Moon Society, a group which upheld the individual and aesthetic purposes of literary expression in opposition to the cause of proletarian realism. Although his ancestral home was in Hangchow, where his grandfather had amassed a modest […]